Summary
A survey by the Bertelsmann Foundation found that most young Germans (ages 16-30) feel disillusioned with politics, citing distrust, lack of influence, and insufficient avenues for engagement beyond voting.
Only 8% believe politicians take their concerns seriously, and fewer than 1 in 5 feel they can enact change.
Despite this, 61% still see democracy as the best system.
The findings come as Germany faces potential elections after its coalition collapse, with experts urging politicians to better involve youth on key issues like peace, education, and inflation.
Why is the world getting collectively dumber?
Humanity is still coming out of its infancy. Modern science and medicine are only around 300 years old, human flight around a hundred while homo sapiens are hundreds of thousands of years old. A large number of people still have no homes, food scarcity, poor education to the point of illiteracy and the literate read at a average 5th grade level. The old traditions and norms are still trying to claw back at progress. We only live for a short lifespan that means the species has to maintain knowledge across generations or keep relearning the same lessons over and over again and often hurts itself in confusion. The world isn’t getting dumber, but it’s not finding any grip or purchase when trying to drag itself out of the pit of the natural world.
Is it dumb? When did politics ever solved the people’s needs? When was the last time a politician was elected that did not come from the elites?
I think it’s pretty obvious to see that politicians are just puppets on the strings of corpos and you cannot vote on those, so I ask you, is it that dumb to find it pointless?
Doing nothing and letting the greater evils get picked because you couldn’t be bothered to fill out a fucking ballot?
Yes, that is extremely dumb.
Spectacularly stupid even.
Is there any choice on the ballot that will save the environment, eliminate billionaires, make corporations accountable and provide for everyone’s needs?
Seems like the world has decided to re-learn the lessons about fascism the hard way.
Our outright fascist party currently stands ar about 19% and our far right conservatives party is at about 32%. That party is also known for talking about literally anything our facist party talks about.
So yeah, we are about to learn what fascism does the hard way. At least currently I am pretty sure that the fascists won’t form a coalition with the conservatives, but I don’t know how long it will stay like this.
Society will have to relearn a lesson like this every so often, because people kind of yearn to offload the mental energy involved in controlling some aspect of their lives to someone else. And while they’ll probably start by offloading or to someone competent and with their best interests at heart, eventually someone who wants to extract wealth from that position will rise in such a space.
German democracy ends at the ballot box
“with experts urging politicians to better involve youth on key issues like peace, education, and inflation.”
Cute in so many ways. “Peace” is an “issue” huh. And they are going to “involve” youth with the problem of inflation? I guess the adults and experts have shat the bed on it, why not ask the kids to fix it? Why not ask the kids to fix everything. The adults refuse to do the “adult” thing on much of anything lately. Maybe youth needs to rule.
And who are these “experts”? Are they the ones who cut the checks to the politicians? I say that in seriousness, the bribery class are the only ones the politicians lift a finger for.
And by “involve” youth they mean market to them, right?
And how to judge them ? I can really understand why…
Politic just lost its proper definition as a word,
Meaning root :
Politic is an adjective that means wise or showing good judgment, especially in making decisions. It can also refer to actions that are prudent or sensible in a given situation.
and in “latin” its even more specific, its “the life of the city”.
Rich people and governants are not a part of society, we are their slaves.
